Current Air Force Equipment
It is difficult to create a reasonable overview of the Air force of Zimbabwe aircraft inventory since there are few credible sources of information documenting the subject on the internet or in the open literature. As all sources do not completely agree with each other there may be a margin of error in the statistics.
| Aircraft | Type | In service | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nanchang K-8 Karakorum | Advanced trainer | 11 | These are the upgraded K-8E with glass cockpit | |
| Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 Flogger | Multi role | 2 | 2 seen in 2003 fly past and currently believed to be stored at Thornhill because they are "excess to requirements". | |
| Chengdu F-7 II/N Airguard – | Fighter | 6–30 | only 6 or 7 were operational when the DRC war started. It is believed an additional 12 were acquired early 1999. A third batch of the Chengdu F-7 MG variant was acquired in November 2004 | |
| Guizhou FT-7BZ | Trainer | 2 | ||
| Shenyang F-5 | fighter/trainer | Shenyang F-5 | ||
| SIAI SF260M/TP/W | Basic Trainer | 37 delivered
|
Status unknown | |
| Ilyushin Il-76 Candid | transport | 2 | ||
| Antonov An-12 Cub | Transport | 1 | ||
| CASA C212-200 Aviocar | Medium transport | 13 delivered | ||
| Britten-Norman BN-2A Islander | Light utility transport | 5 | ||
| Cessna FTB.337G and O-2A | Light utility transport | 23 | 3 were lost in operations in the DRC | |
| Agusta-Bell 412SP | Light utility helicopter | 12 | some were armed with rockets for the DRC conflict | |
| Aerospatiale SE-316B Alouette III | Light utility helicopter | 4 | 4 participated during the air show in 2005 |
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